Author Archives: Police State Daily

[ssba] He only wanted some public information. Instead, he got a visit from a Tennessee sheriff. Editor for the Prison Legal News, Alex Friedmann, has been working on a story about complaints coming out of the Marshall County jail. He’s now suing Sheriff Normal Dalton for refusing to release public records of questionable activities in the prison system, reports WSMV. ...

[ssba] The city of Baltimore, Maryland, is set to impose a heavy infringement on the freedom of movement of adolescents. Along with a night time curfew of 9:00 p.m., whats being called a “public school curfew” between the hours of 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. is expected to be signed into law by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. The law, passed ...

[ssba] A Georgia family is outraged after a SWAT team raided their home in the middle of the night and seriously injured their 19-month-old boy, reports WSBTV. While preforming a no knock raid at around 3:00 am, deputies with the Cornelia Police Department confirm that the child was injured by a flash band grenade that exploded after being thrown into ...

[ssba] Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, an African-American Atlanta area man, has filed a formal complaint against Clayton County authorities regarding a May 2 incident when police were called to his residence by neighbors reporting a “suspicious” person. “I assumed — apparently incorrectly, and naively — that they were pursuing someone on foot that had fled through my yard, and I was unaware ...

[ssba] Disturbing footage has surfaced of an Ohio Deputy violently throwing a woman to the ground and attempting to pry her mouth open after she took a prescription Tylenol. Siobhan Householder, 35, of Akron, was in a holding area waiting to make a court appearance when she took the medication for a tooth infection. Surveillance footage shows Summit County Sheriffs ...

[ssba] In another case of barbaric “zero-tolerance” policy gone crazy, a Spalding County, Georgia middle school has suspended students who discussed a dress code violation prank on Facebook. According to WSB-TV, one student’s Facebook post, and the subsequent sharing, commenting, and “liking” of other students got over two-dozen Cowan Road Middle School classmates suspended. The post began with a simple ...

[ssba] Ohio police are facing a lawsuit after blinding a passenger in a routine Fayette County traffic stop by tasering him directly in the eye. Dashcam footage shows a Sheriff’s deputy and an Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper used excessive force in deploying a taser and stunning Matthew David Kelly twice, causing him to lose vision in his right eye. ...

[ssba] An 24-year-old Albuquerque, New Mexico man is reeling after a police officer kneed him in the groin with enough force to shatter his testicle during a traffic stop. Jeremy Martin, a law student at the University of New Mexico ended up losing his testicle as a result, after an unsuccessful emergency surgery attempt. According to police, Martin was driving ...